White Coat Quotes

• So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.

  Mark Steyn

  Men, Past, White

  "STEYN: It’s not about health care". www.washingtontimes.com. March 7, 2010.

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• You’ve got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  White, Coats, Cognitive

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• There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Doctors, White, Choices

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• Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

  Ben Goldacre

  White, Support, Coats

  Ben Goldacre (2014). “I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Healing, Doctors, Ideas

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• We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale. Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?"

  Alan Bennett

  Boys, Men, Names

  "Writing Home". Book by Alan Bennett, 1994.

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• Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Running, White, Coats

  "Daniel Kahneman: 'We're beautiful devices'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.

  Serena Williams

  New York, Rainy Day, White

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• You know, Talon. Towels look really good on you. You go outside like that and you’ll start a whole new fashion craze. (Sunshine) Do you always say everything that comes to your mind? (Talon) Mostly. I do have some thoughts I keep to myself. I used to not care and would say anything at all, but then one time my college roommate called the psycho unit on me. You know, they really do have white coats. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fashion, Sunshine, College

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• Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mean, Men, White

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.

  Raymond Chandler

  Mean, Men, Years

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

  Walter Matthau

  Nice, White, Giving

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